Emerald Lord Murugan idol stolen from a Tamil Nadu temple by thieves who went undetected through CCTVs and alarms; gang may have come earlier as devotees to the hill-top shrine

An emerald idol of Lord Murugan, installed in 2008 at a hill-top temple near Madurantakam, Tamil Nadu, was stolen by a gang that allegedly posed as devotees to study the shrine's security before breaching three layers of protection, disabling the alarm and blinding CCTV cameras with paint.

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